STAT+: Top immunology association divided over $8.4-billion California ballot measure to fund the field, emails show — SkimNews
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- Internal emails obtained by STAT show the American Association of Immunologists is sharply divided over California's Proposition 38, a ballot measure the association might be expected to champion
- Proposition 38 would direct $8.4 billion in taxpayer dollars to the field (the source text is truncated before specifying the funding target in detail)
Why it matters: A leading scientific association publicly split over an $8.4 billion funding initiative targeting its own discipline removes the unified expert endorsement that ballot campaigns typically rely on to sway voters.
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